A self-described mother of “two transgender sons” told a Colorado School board on Nov. 11 that banning biological men from women’s sports was discrimination.
Conservatives on the Douglas County, Colorado, school board met to discuss plans to extend charter school renewal and to restrict biological males from participating in women’s sports before a “progressive” majority takes over, the Denver Gazette reported. While discussing the potential policy, Bernstein appeared to insinuate its supporters were sexist.
“I am Brooke Bernstein. My pronouns are she, they. I am the incoming president of Douglas County Pride. I have two transgender sons, age 23 and 25. I’m here today, was going to be requesting tabling the proposed policy, but realizing now that it was just a plagiarized, we’ll use Marshall’s language, plagiarized policy from District 49 and not even apparently reviewed or understood from a litigation standpoint, litigation prevention standpoint,” Bernstein claimed. “It is fraud. This is a bad policy. I wouldn’t support any policy, but especially one like this.”
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“First of all, it’s assuming that boys are inherently masterful over girls and has not necessarily the case. If you are out to protect the girls, but you are discriminating against trans males, they — by their presumption a trans male is not a worrisome competition if they were to participate in boys’ sports,” Bernstein continued. “So, there is a contradiction in the logic for this. The other thing is just how you are going to implement this. Figuring out the biological sex versus chromosomal sex, those are two different things and come up in different ways, you are planning on conditioning participation in sports to provide access to medical records. Do you have the capabilities of protecting medical records under Colorado law and HIPPA? Do you intend to start this — I’ll send a letter.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring the government recognized the “biological reality of sex” within hours of taking the oath of office on Jan. 20, defining terms like male, female, man, woman, boy and girl, then signed an executive order barring federal funds from schools that allowed biological men who identify as transgender women to play in women’s sports on Feb. 5.
Several college teams elected to forfeit matches against San Jose State University’s women’s volleyball team in 2024 due to the presence of a biological male on the San Jose State roster, according to the Los Angeles Times.
North Carolina high school volleyball player Payton McNabb suffered a career-ending concussion when a transgender player’s spike hit her in the face during a September 2022 volleyball match and described ongoing medical symptoms in testimony she gave in April 2023 to the state Legislature.
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